This month, I am in Amman, Jordan, teaching on the annual Palestine Social Medicine Course. This course, now in its second year, aims to educate educators, public-health workers, physicians and medical students about the limitations of the biological model of medicine in settings of fragmentation, violence and dispossession.
The course is organized by the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights, a partnership between the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and the Institute of Community and Public Health at Birzeit University.
Since violence escalated on 7 October 2023, many scientific and medical gatherings in the Middle East have been postponed or cancelled. The organizers felt strongly that it was important to keep the course running, because the exchanges it enables are crucial.
The war in Gaza is harming thousands of people now, but will have ripple effects on all nations for decades, if not centuries, to come.
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